Top 6 Tips to Get a Better Cell Phone Reception

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on August 08, 2014

If you're looking for tips on improving your cell phone reception, you have come to the right place. There's nothing really that complicated about getting more powerful cell phone signals, whether you're at home or when you are on the road - just follow the tips given here to know how. Soon, dropped calls will be a thing of the past and you will be able to use your cell phone more confidently.

Instead of beating around the bush, we start off with the best solution to your problem. The easiest and a surefire way to boost your cell phone signals is to buy a cell phone signal booster such as the Wilson Signal Booster DT for your home or office. Wilson Electronics DT (Desk Top) is a very useful device that takes the smallest signal received from the nearest cellular tower and amplifies it by 24 to 32 times. This improves your cell phone reception by a significant extent, whether you are at home or on the road driving a truck (in which case you should get a Wilson Cellular Trucker antenna too). These devices are easy to set up and you can get the Wilson antenna mount up and running in no time at all – you can do this yourself and don't have to hire a technician to do this for you.

Tip #2: Look for a higher ground

If you are outside and find it impossible to get a reception, what you should do is to look for higher ground. Check out your surroundings, if you are at the bottom of a hill or slope, or at a particularly low spot, look to go higher. If there's a small hill nearby, climb it, if possible. If there's a building close to you, ask for permission to go to the highest floor on it. Look for the right spot till you find your signal increasing in strength.

Tip #3 – Get rid of the interference from other devices

If you're using a laptop and the Wi-Fi is on, the Wi-Fi signals interfere with your cell phone reception. Turn the laptop off, walk away till you find a spot where there's no interference of any sort – not from the laptop and not even from other electronic devices such as a microwave oven or DVR. Your cell phone signals work better when there isn’t much interference.

Tip #4: Keep the batteries charged up

Did you know that when your cell phone is low on battery, or when you try to run many apps on at the same time, this affects the battery power? In fact, this could be the reason why you're getting a weak reception. To solve this problem, keep your phone fully charged for as long as possible. Running on a low battery can weaken your cell phone reception considerably. If you're driving, invest in a portable charger, so that your batteries are always fully charged.

Tip #5: Reboot the cell phone

One of the simplest things you can do is to turn off the phone and restart it again, or to switch to the airplane mode and back to normal mode. The reason for this is sometimes as you move from one location to another, your phone finds it impossible to connect with a new cell tower in time – which is why you get a weak signal or experience a dropped call. Therefore, rebooting the phone would force it to reconnect to the nearest cell tower, which would improve reception considerably.

Tip #6: Change the channel that your phone runs on

One of the simplest things you can do is to switch to a different channel – from 4G to 3G or from 3G to 2G. This causes a dramatic improvement in your cell phone reception. The reason for this is when you are on 3G or 4G, there's a lot of data streaming going on, which takes up much of the bandwidth of your network. Therefore, you would be competing with hundreds or even thousands of other people for the same bandwidth. When you switch to 2G, which is not used as much by most people, you will have more bandwidth available to you, because of which your cell phone reception will be much better. Of course, 2G cannot compare with 3G or 4G when it comes to the speed of data transfer.

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